Charles Hazlewood Biography

Charles Matthew Egerton Hazlewood (born 14 November 1966) is a British conductor and advocate for broadening access to orchestral music. Renowned for his widespread presence across the BBC, he conducts orchestras around the world, making his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London. Hazlewood lives on a farm in Somerset from where he hosts his own music festival Orchestra in a Field.

Hazlewood performed at Carnegie Hall for the first time in 2003, conducting the Orchestra of St. Lukes. In 2009 he made his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London and the Malmo Symphony Orchestra in Sweden.

From 2005 to 2009 Hazlewood was Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra with whom he has appeared several times at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London; in August 2006, he simultaneously presented live from the stage for TV.

Hazlewood is music director of the contemporary music ensemble Excellent Device! (formerly EOS), formed in 1991, and its period instrument sister orchestra, Army of Generals. The latter was formed by Hazlewood to record with him all the music for his BBC films.

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